Garment hanger



H. FISCHER GARMENT HANGER July 29, 1952 Filed Sept 21 nventor cafe (lttorneg Patented July 29, 1952 'UNIT-Eo STATES PATENT oFFIt-:EV

Harry Fischer, Kew Gardens, N. Y. Application September 21, 1951, Serial No. 247,580

This'invention relates togarment hangers and particularly to garment hangers which have as a part thereof a'bar over which trousers may be hung in such manner as to tend to hold them in pressed condition ready for wear.

Various devices have been designed for hanging trousers with a view to keeping them in or restoring them to a pressed condition suitable for Wear but most of these devices are time-consuming and not wholly satisfactory in use. The ordinary coat fhan'ge 'with the" usual .trousersupporting crossbar has several drawbacks. In the first place, because of the greater Weight of the seat and waist portions of a pair of trousers as compared with the `legs careful balancing of the trousers on the bar is necessary to insure their remaining-biplace. Secondly, because of the limit imposed vupon the length of the crossbar byA th'e'shoulder span of the-hanger as a whole, the placing of the trousers in such position on the'crossbar thatnthe seat and waist portions do not over-balance the leg portions usually causes a wrinkling of the edges of that part of the trousers which is resting upon the bar. Thirdly, the balancing of the trousers requires that the 'greater part'of the legs thereof must hang free-from'the bar 'with no substantial pull y thereon to help keepthem in press.

Clamp"hanger sl which clamp the trouser cuifs between the jaws to provide support for the suspended trousers present the diculty of obtaining uniform clamping action throughout the width of thejaws to -preventfany part of the suspended trousers from sagging and are thus also time consumingy and unsatisfactory in use. Moreover, clamp hangers, if their action be' sulciently strong'to prevent sagging of the trousers, usually leave jaw'marks on the trousers cuffs which tend to detract from the-appearance of the cuffs.

AThe present invention aims'to provide an improved garment hanger of the crossbar type in which provision is made for so resisting slippage of the garment over the cross bar that a pair of trousers, for example, may be hung therefrom in proximity to the trousers cuffs and still be held firmly in suspended condition. An important feature of the invention is the provision on the crossbar of the garment hanger of garment engaging ribs of resilient friction material so arranged as to resist movement transversely to the bar of a garment resting thereon.

Other objects, important features and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter when the following description and claims are considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which y 2 Claims. (Cl. 223-88) Figure 1 is a front elevation of a garment hanger embodying the present invention with a garment shown in position thereon;

Figure 2 is a plan viewof a portionof the garment-engaging bar shown in Figure 1 having fixed on the garment-engaging surface thereof ribs of resilient friction material;

Figure 3 is a Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a Figure 3;

Figure 5v is a section FigureZ; .Y

Figure 6 is a side elevation of a garment-engaging bar covered by a modified form of the fabric which has woventhereinto the ribs of resilient frictionimaterial, this view showing the fabric as woveninto a tube which may be slipped over the bar before it is placed in the hanger section on the line -4-4 of Von the line 5 5 of support; f. Figure '7 is a section Von thefline 1 1 0f l Figure 6;

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Figure 8 is a front'elevation of amodication of the garment hanger in which a swinging crossbar, having thereon garment-engaging vribs of resilient friction material, cooperateswith a stationary crossbar having similar ribs `thereon to effect a clamping of the'garment-betweenthe bars;

Figure 9 is a section on the line9+9 of Figure Figure 10 is a section through a modified structure in which the ribs ofresilient friction material are shown as carried upon a plasticbase instead of a fabric base. 1

In the embodiments of the invention shown in Figures 1 to 7 inclusivathe garment hanger is shown as provided with curved shoulder-engaging portions 2 having at their junction a suspension hook 4 and having in the open space below the shoulder portions 2 a crossbar 6 over which the trousers 8 or other garment may be hung. As hereinabove pointed out, as heretofore constructed these crossbars have been effective to suspend the trousers only when the portions of the trousers depending from the two sides 'of the bar are substantially equal in weight so that there is no tendency of one part to pull the other over the bar and cause the garment to drop. This means, as hereinabove pointed out, that the trousers have to be folded over the bar at a point near the crotch so that the greater weight of the waist and seat portion of the trousers will not overbalance the leg portions. The obvious result of this is that the pull which is needed on the leg portions to maintain them in or restore them to `section on the `.line 3-3 of press is wanting and that these hanging leg portions are thus left to retain the Wrinkles acquired in wear.

I have discovered that by providing that surface of the crossbar 6 which engages the trousers or other garment hung thereon with ribs l of resilient friction material, such as rubber 0r other suitable resilient plastic, these ribs projecting substantially.. above the body of the material on which they are carried and extending preferably lengthwise of the bar so that the garment pull thereon is transverse to the length of the bar, a very strong resistance is offered to the slipping of thegarment over the bar, the weight of the garmentpressing upon the ribs of resilient friction material creating a very strong frictional resistancettothe' movement of the garment thereover.

As shown in the sectional view in Figure', the ribs l0 in the hanger rshown in Figure 1 are located uponethat'part of theesufa'ce of the cross bar-6 uponjwhich'the'weight offthegarment principally rests,-are individuallyv relatively narrowgso that they will not lea-ve noticeable impressions on 'the garment and-are preferably rslightly -spaced transversely fromV eachother Tas,4 for example, by the filler or woofthreads Whieh'hold the ribelli! in positionin the fabric inwhich they tarelshown as constituting warp threads in the formpf the invention shown in Figures-'l and' 3.

It has been found in practice that for Amost garments, and particulafl'ygfor trousers `formed of most textile materials, the form of the invention of the leg of the trousers which does notengage Ytheierossbar to-slip on the otherleg, the'.form of the invention shown in Figures 8 and `92may1be used.- 'In thisembodimentofl the. invention `a sec ond crosslaar I 2 4may rbe:v provided, this crossbar being, llasshoWnfl-iercain,l somewhatshorter 'than the crossbar B and being-'mounted .uporra support I4 iin; offset :relation to ithe axial line through pivotall-yt mounted Vends of said support iiigsopthat it may .swing into and out of clamping relationto a garmentr'esting upon the crcsshar. II'hecrossbar l2, like the crossbar 6, is provided withlongitudinally extending. ribs util; ofthe. samezresilient frictionfmaterial .as' that: provided Aupon the cross- `bar6 ,'these ribs'gb'eing iin: such position 'that `when a pair of trousers 8 has been-hung over thecrossbar-therswinging crossbar i2 maybe swung to bringits-:ribs Iginto engagement with the legof .thertrousers whichsdoesnlt fengagei thecrossbar 5.

-It will be seen'ifromian inspection of Figure 9ithat :the ilower surface .of thezcrcssbar L!! extends 4 slightly below the upper surface of the crossbar B so that it can swing in one direction only away from the crossbar 6 and that when the trousers are suspended over the crossbar 6 in the manner shown in Figure 9 and the crossbar I2 has been swung into engagement with the upper leg any pull on the garment that would shorten the overfhangnf the'trouser legson the bar 6 would cause an. increased clamping action between the cross- 10 bars I2 an'd'G.

In Figure 10 is shown a slight modification of `the form of the invention shown in Figures 1 to 5, inclusive. In this modification the ribs I6 of 4resilient friction material, instead of being formed '15 `asv/arpthreads in a woven fabric, as shown in y ,the form of the; invention illustrated in Figures 1 t o 5, are attached to a base of plastic material +8 or-molded as a part of a suitable plastic.

As shown in Figure 6, the attachment of the 530 fabric,.in'iwhich'ithezribs` l0 '.0fr;resilient;friction .materialeconstitute'.warptthreadsmay bejfaciliatatediintthezmamifactnreotthe garment; hanger of A:the .presentinventicn -if tthe `ffabric v,be i woven in the form of.a1tuhej20iltting -closelyover the g5 `Acros'sbar sinrthe crossbar :12,fwith ,theA ribs i@ rlistrihuted'in'therlnannerfshown@ either in Figure :1 .orinfligure't Thet;best -frictioneflectto;prevent slipping y of like g-ment: Qverthnezcrossbar is ,obtainedzif--the 3g ifabricbe-twoven.with-the warpthreads of; resilient frictionjnaterialvnotrunder-tension.

`What Izclaim. as :new is;v n 1.,'21 'garment 'hangereoniprising f a garmentitengaging bar Vv,and afsupporttherefonfsaid .bar v.having r fixed :on lthe garment-.engaging surface thereof .longitudinally iextending ,-ribs -of xfsoft, highly 1 flexible, -resilient friction -materiaL fsaid longitudinallyextending ribsfof highly .flexibleI :resilient *,friction :material fbeing :constituted by 40 ;re1ativeiy`;coarse; warp :threads lof rubber woven iintoa fabriccomprising nerrlierthreads, said :fabric beingattachedto: the bar; y

:LA garment fhangerfaccording to claim -.1 in `,which the-bar.` is ,of 'cur-ved; .section .-and theribs 4 5 :of vgsoftghighly flexiblefresilient frictionmaterial :are locatedjnearthe ,outer boundaries of thearc of curvature ofthatmart ofthe' barisurface upon vvhichzaggarmenthungfover the barzrests.

' f fHARRYFISCH-ER.

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